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...weeks we swam daily in the "poisoned lagoon" and walked hip-deep by the hour in the "radioactive water." Poppycock ! Over two years ago the scientists reported that a man living for months on twice-A-bombed Bikini would be exposed to radioactivity roughly equivalent to one chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...next day. Scores of men came running and crawling through the woods, shot it out with the Preskitts for two hours. One intruder was carried away with a shattered jaw, his chest and abdomen peppered with buckshot. The Preskitts finally gave in, agreed to close down their mine until "an agreement" could be reached. But other independents kept operating. "We're going to stay in operation unless we're shot out," roared one owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trouble in the Hill Country | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...competitors, another licensed paper had dropped 9,000 readers. New Score. Military Government offi cials hoped that the democratic press could weather the economic war, but the battles would be bitter. The nationalists had banded together into a new press association and raised a war chest, to wage the fight. A majority of the former Nazis had another blackjack in their pockets. Though they had not been allowed to publish, the occupation authorities had not taken away their ownership of the presses on which most of the licensed papers were printed under five-year leases. Democratic publishers feared that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War in Germany | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...hand, into Clark Hoover's barbershop. Inside, a six-year-old boy with a white apron around his neck was sitting astride a raised hobbyhorse. The barber stood beside him clipping busily. Wordlessly, Howard Unruh aimed his pistol. He shot the boy on the hobbyhorse through the chest and head, then fired again and killed the barber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Quiet One | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Just enjoy the whole thing," said the man. "Now let's have some major action here, some minor action there . . . That's quite good . . . Go on now, really moving . . . Go right on . . . Yes, yes . . . let the action transfer to the whole body . . . Relax the shoulders . . . Hollow the chest . . . That's wonderful, wonderful! . . ." The voice became slightly breathless with excitement : "Now just gently . . . close your mouth please . . . Go on now, really moving . . . Yes, yes, YES! . . . That's so beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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